News Archive - 2010

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.2.16. This release marks the end of support
for PHP 5.2. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.

This release focuses on addressing a regression in open_basedir implementation
introduced in 5.2.15 in addition to fixing a crash inside PDO::pgsql
on data retrieval when the server is down. All users who have upgraded to 5.2.15 and are
utilizing open_basedir are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 5.2.16 or 5.3.4.

To prepare for upgrading to PHP 5.3, now that PHP 5.2's support ended, a
migration guide available on http://php.net/migration53, details the changes between
PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3.

PHP Quebec is pleased to announce the 2011 edition of the http://confoo.ca/ Conference.
The Conference will take place in Montréal, Québec, Canada between March 9 and
11th 2011. We are looking for speakers willing to share their expertise with
Canadian and United States PHP professionals programmers and managers.

The PHP Rio User Group
is pleased to announce their second edition of
the PHP'n Rio conference. It will be held on November 20th,
2010, at the PUC Rio university,
Rio de Janeiro. It is a one day conference aimed on providing
experienced developers and beginners a chance to learn more about PHP
frameworks, web applications built in PHP, and the art of testing
code.

No fees or subscription required. Participation is entirely free!

Whether you live here or are around just enjoying the marvelous city,
come and join us :) For more information, please visit
http://www.phprio.org/phpnrio10
(Portuguese only).

The PHP Barcelona User Group is pleased to announce the 4th edition of the PHP Barcelona Conference. Come to the shores of the Mediterranean for two fun-packed days of cutting edge PHP, Application Scalability, High Performance, Databases, Integration, Testing, Clouds (not in the sky, we hope) and many many more topics and surprises. The event will take place from the 29th to the 30th of October and will bring together Ilia Alshanetsky, Fabien Potencier, Stefan Priebsch, Lorenzo Alberton, Enrico Zimuel and many more of the shiniest names in the industry for 48 hours of intensive PHP and fiesta!

For more information visit http://phpconference.es and book your spot now before tickets run out and don't lose out on one of the most appealing events on the PHP calendar :)

Not just another conference - this year has seen some high-valued
conferences (like our IPC Spring Edition in Berlin) and we are already
preparing the next big PHP conference. But this year makes a difference.
It's the 10th. anniversary of the International PHP Conference. Being in
business for ten years, we met some great people, made true fans and
encouraged PHP developers all over the world to commit their passion for
web-development to a growing community, that is behind some of the most
well-known websites today.

Of course, a great event is nothing without great developers and we are very
happy to welcome the PHP community to our next International PHP Conference
2010! Again, this conference is packed with workshops, sessions and keynotes
on some of the most trending topics in PHP and web development today. Wether
you are the developer dealing with core PHP features, the project lead that
is in continuous integration or the CTO looking for professional solutions,
this conference is the place to be. Not because of our 10 years of
experience in bringing together some of the most experienced heads in PHP
development - but because of this conference being one of Europe's leading
technology events that have been made possible by a really passionate
community. And that is ... by you.

PHP North West is a PHP conference with a regional focus, bringing the best
of PHP speakers to the north-west of England on Saturday 9th October. A
full day of conference speakers over at least two tracks this should again
prove to be one of the best events for PHP user-led conferences in Europe.
We're also, as last year, having an informal half day of speakers on Sunday
10th October, at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) nearby. With a
weekend packed with all things PHP and a ticket price to suit business and
hobbyists alike there are no reasons to miss out - see you in Manchester :)

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.3.3. This release focuses on improving the
stability and security of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 100 bug
fixes, some of which are security related. All users are encouraged
to upgrade to this release.

Backwards incompatible change:

Methods with the same name as the last element of a namespaced class name
will no longer be treated as constructor. This change doesn't affect
non-namespaced classes.

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.2.14. This release focuses on improving the
stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 60 bug fixes, some of which
are security related.

This release marks the end of the active support for PHP
5.2. Following this release the PHP 5.2 series will receive no further
active bug maintenance. Security fixes for PHP 5.2 might be published on a
case by cases basis. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to
PHP 5.3.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.14:

Rewrote var_export() to use smart_str rather than output buffering, prevents data disclosure if a fatal error occurs.

PHP is proud to announce TestFest 2010. TestFest is PHP's annual campaign
to increase the overall code coverage of PHP through PHPT tests. During
TestFest, PHP User Groups and individuals around the world organize local
events where new tests are written and new contributors are introduced to
PHP's testing suite.

Last year was very successful with 887 tests submitted and a code coverage
increase of 2.5%. This year we hope to do better.

TestFest's own SVN repository and reporting tools are back online for this
year's event. New to TestFest this year are automated test environment build
tools as well as screencasts showing those build tools in action.

Please visit the TestFest
2010 wiki page for all the details on events being organized in your area,
or find out how you can organize your own event.

PHP | OSI Days 2010 is the premier PHP conference being organised at
Asia's largest Open Source Conference - OSI Days 2010. We invite you to
come and lead a tutorial / session or participate in Panel Discussions
at OSI Days 2010 specifically for the PHP domain. The last date for
submitting a proposal for the conference is 15th June 2010. The
conference is scheduled for September 19-21, 2010 at Chennai, India.

be Free of Marketing talks / self promotion / company promotion:
Please speak about ideas/ technology/ business and not about
yourself or your company. Talk about Open Source Projects/
Products and not strictly commercial closed source products.

Clearly identify your target audience and what are the
pre-requisites while submitting the proposal

Have a clear title and limit the scope of your proposal to
something specific rather than trying to cover too much

Speaker Benefits

OSI Days offers its speakers tremendous opportunities for exposure and
recognition as an industry leader. Your session will attract many
technical & Business professionals interested in learning from your
example, expertise and experience. In appreciation of your contributions
as a Conference Speaker, we provide you many benefits, read them in full
detail. <http://osidays.com/speaker-benefit>

Contact

For registration and more details visit: http://osidays.com or contact
Dhiraj Khare at dhiraj@osidays.com or call at +919811206582

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.2.13. This release focuses on improving the stability of
the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 40 bug fixes, some of which are security related.
All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.13:

Fixed safe_mode validation inside tempnam() when the directory path does not end with a /). (Martin Jansen)

The Dutch PHP Conference is now in its 4th year and yet again promises
a varied and inspiring few days of
excellent technical content
including Sebastian Bergmann, Kevlin Henney, Chris Shiflett, Ilia Alshanetsky
and many other fascinating speakers and topics.

The event is held in Amsterdam from
10th to
12th June 2010,
for more information see the website at
http://phpconference.nl
- we hope you can join us in Amsterdam in June!

PHP Quebec and the ConFoo team is pleased to announce the schedule of
the ConFoo Web Techno Conference.
With over 130 presentations in 8 rooms, ConFoo brings you the best of
Web development.

The event will take place on March 8th to 12th in Montreal, at the
prestigious Hilton Bonaventure Hotel.

Over 100 specialists will be present at the conference to share their
knowledge during talks and training. Among them will be:
Rasmus Lerdorf, Terry Chay, Chris Shiflett and Morgan Tocker

You would not want to miss the following presentations:
HTML5: Where Are We Now? (Mark Pilgrim), Andrei's Regex Clinic
(Andrei Zmievski), Security-Centered Design (Chris Shiflett) and Welcome
to the Wild Wild Web (Carl Mercier)

Register online before
January 22nd and save 200$!
Looking forward to see you at the conference.